Despite the recommendation of his own department, a Lafayette, Indiana police officer will not be fired for pushing a man in a wheelchair to the ground last year, WXIN-TV reported on Wednesday. Instead, the officer, Tom Davidson was stripped of...

A 19-year-old Colorado woman was arrested by the FBI while allegedly attempting to leave the U.S. to join an extremist group that has run roughshod over Iraq in recent weeks, KMGH-TV reported on Wednesday. Shannon Maureen Conley was allegedly in...

Telemundo anchor Jose Díaz-Balart pushed back on Wednesday against the protesters who derailed a convoy full of immigrant women and children, as well as radio host Rush Limbaugh, for what he described as dehumanizing treatment toward people...

A 19-year-old Texas woman has deleted online photos of herself with endangered animals she hunted and killed following increasing criticism, the Dallas Morning News reported on Wednesday. Kendall Jones garnered attention from several outlets...

Anti-gay pastor Scott Lively angrily challenged Last Week Tonight host John Oliver to a debate after Oliver featured him as part of a segment on U.S. Christian influence on Uganda’s draconian restrictions on homosexuality, Right Wing Watch...

Radio host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday suggested that women who needed birth control but couldn’t not get it because it was banned by their religious employers could solve their problems if they stopped having sex. On his radio show, the...

By Peter Apps WASHINGTON (Reuters) – First it was worries over the South China Sea, Afghanistan, Libya, Mali and Syria. Then it was Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the hunt for Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. Now the...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – How do Tibetans thrive in high-altitude, low-oxygen conditions that would make others wither? Well, they may have received some help from an unexpected source. Scientists said on Wednesday many...

(Reuters) – A Southern California couple have been arrested for child endangerment over accusations they kept their 11-year-old severely autistic son in a metal cage, police said on Wednesday. Police were led to a home in the Los Angeles...

A Florida man was arrested over the weekend after his girlfriend accused him of attacking her pet rabbit following an argument over women’s rights. James Wertz remains held on $3,000 bond at the Palm Beach County Jail on animal cruelty and...

A high school drama department in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania has been forced to scrap plans for their Spring 2015 production of the Monty Python musical “Spamalot.” Think Progress reported that parents and the school’s...

CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday highlighted the “hypocrisy” of Hobby Lobby for investing in companies that made the same birth control products that it refused to provide to female employees. Earlier this year, Mother Jones...

Waitresses in a town called Rifle carry pistols when they serve customers at Shooters Grill. The owners of the western Colorado eatery encourage customers to carry loaded firearms, too: “Guns are welcome on premises,” reads a sign on the front...

By Maziyar Ghiabi, University of Oxford There are stories some people might not expect to read about Iran – and its progressive drugs policy is one. As a number of countries begin to slowly reconsider their approach towards illicit drugs,...

An Indiana pastor said that his church was vandalized this week when someone change a roadside sign to include a racial slur. A motorist noticed that two signs on Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Lanesville had unusual messages and posted...